For most Muslims, Eid marks the happy end to a month of fasting and spiritual development. It is a day filled with prayers, warm embraces and the smiling faces of children as they open their presents.
For extremists, however, Eid only brings joy if it is coloured by the blood of murdered children.
This is the sad reality of extremists in Pakistan who —quite worryingly— represent a growing minority. The very same savages who place political ambition ahead of their religious duty to be men of peace, by persecuting minorities, subjugating women and obliterating all remnants of religious freedom.